Fantastic Rhapsodies--Clair de lune, The Engulfed Cathedral, The Girl with the Flaxen Hair & other gamelan-inspired works of Debussy

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Fantastic Rhapsodies

Solo piano, performed by Brent Hugh, CD $8.95; Cassette Tape $7.95
Click here to purchase our version of the CD, with full color packaging--or click here to purchase the MP3.com version of the CD, which has the same music, has very basic packaging, has a cheaper price, and can be purchased with a credit card.

Debussy CD Front Cover--Clair de lune, The Isle of Joy, The Engulfed
Cathedral, Goldfish--Javanese gamelan-inspired music

Fantastic Rhapsodies has music of Claude Debussy inspired by the Javanese gamelan. Enter a new and fascinating world of sound as Debussy transfers these exotic but beautiful timbres and musical textures to the western world of piano music.

FLASH: Brent Hugh's Fantastic Rhapsodies Becomes First Classical Piano CD on MP3.com
Click here to check out our new page on MP3.com and download free CD-quality MP3 tracks!
Already in the first week, Hugh's CD Fantastic Rhapsodies is in the Classical Top Ten, and no less than 8 singles from Fantastic Rhapsodies are in the Classical Top 40 at MP3.com.

Reviews & Press

The Kansas City Star had some very nice coverage of my research into Claude Debussy and the Javanese gamelan. They even featured some tracks from the CD on their dial-in info line.

You can read a review of Fantastic Rhapsodies by Kansas City infoZine online. Kansas City infoZine also covered the live version of Fantastic Rhapsodies. You can also read what internet users and other regular people thought about the music on Fantastic Rhapsodies.

Contents and Real Audio Samples:

Note: RA(play) indicates a streaming RealAudio sample track (will start playing immediately).
RA(dl) indicates a downloadable RealAudio track (downloads to your hard drive first, then plays).
To listen to either type of RealAudio, you'll need the RealAudio Player.

Clair de lune [ RA(play), RA(dl) ]
Prelude (from Pour le piano)
Images II (Bells Through the Leaves, The Moon Descends over the Ruins of the Temple, Goldfish)
Pagodes, from Estampes [ RA(play), RA(dl) ]
The Isle of Joy
Etude for Chromatic Steps
Etude for Opposing Sonorities
The Interrupted Serenade (from Preludes book 1)
The Girl with the Flaxen Hair (from Preludes book 1) [ RA(play), RA(dl) ]
The Engulfed Cathedral (from Preludes book 1) [ RA(play), RA(dl) ]

More RealAudio Samples:

Realaudio samples of live performances of some of the music on Fantastic Rhapsodies can be heard on Brent Hugh's Interactive Internet Piano Concert

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Fantastic Rhapsodies

FLASH: Brent Hugh's Fantastic Rhapsodies Becomes First Classical Piano CD on MP3.com

Reviews & Press

Contents and Real Audio Samples:

More RealAudio Samples:

Brent Hugh's
Phenomenal Internet Music Mall